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hazard

/ˈhæzɚd/ verb C2
  1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  2. To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on. · I'll hazard a guess.

He/she/it hazards · Past hazarded · Past participle hazarded · -ing form hazarding

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Verb forms

Base form
hazard
He/she/it
hazards
Past
hazarded
Past participle
hazarded
-ing form
hazarding

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It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 83 · B2
Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been well assured of his cousin’s corroboration.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 239 · B2
Danglars hazarded a look on both sides of the road, and perceived monuments of a singular form, and his mind now recalled all the details Morcerf had related, and comparing them with his own situation, he felt sure that he must be on the Appian Way.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1070 · C1

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